Media Foundation-IIC Media Dialogues
The Media Foundation-IIC Media dialogues are a series of panel discussions that TMF holds in collaboration with the India International Centre, New Delhi, about once every three months. A panel of experts — journalists, academics, policymakers, stakeholders — debates and analyses an important current issue related to the Indian media, whether it is to do with media freedom or media practice, media policy, media business, and so on.
The Dialogues focus on topical issues that impact the media or demonstrate the way it operates in the country. The aim is to analyse and debate to what extent the media fulfils or falls short in its remit, which is to report without fear or favour.
Subjects covered in some of the recent Media Dialogues include: Challenges Confronting the Indian Language Media; The Media, Operation Sindoor and India’s Diplomatic Outreach; Electoral Rolls Controversy and the Media; and New Criminal Codes and Media Laws: Which Way Media Freedom.
The speakers at the Dialogues have included such eminent personalities as SY Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner, Barkha Dutt, Editor, Mojo Story, Yogendra Yadav, politician and psephologist, Mahua Moitra, MP, Vivek Katju, former Ambassador, Dhanya Rajendran, Founder-Editor, The News Minute, Jawhar Sircar, MP, Ashutosh, Co-Founder, Satya Hindi, Seshadri Chari, politician and former Editor, The Organiser, Priyanka Chaturvedi, MP Saba Naqvi, senior journalist, C Raja Mohan, journalist and foreign policy expert, Nikhil Pahwa, Founder-Editor, The MediaNama, and many more.
at a Media Dialogue
at a Media Dialogue
Wherever possible, we try to make the takeaways from the discussions count in substantive ways. For instance, on the basis of the Media Dialogue on ‘The Draft Broadcast Bill: Regulation or Control?’ held on December 5, 2023, TMF sent a detailed representation to the ministry of information and broadcasting which had invited public responses to its proposed Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, 2023.
The Media Dialogues have come to be recognised as meaningful conversations on various aspects of the Indian media as they play out in the country today. Gratifyingly, the Dialogues have been drawing a full house every time.
